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Hugo Award for Best Short Story
The Hugo Awards are given annually for the best English language science fiction or fantasy works. The awards are named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and given in various categories.
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Allamagoosa
"Allamagoosa" is an award-winning science fiction short story by Eric Frank Russell.
The story is set on board a military starship, the Bustler, but the tale is comic rather than heroic. The ship's officers and crew are facing an official inspection...
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The Star
"The Star" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke that appeared in the science fiction magazine Infinity Science Fiction in 1955 and won the Hugo award in 1956. The story was also published as "Star of Bethlehem".
"The Star" is the...
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Or All the Seas with Oysters
"Or All the Seas with Oysters" is a science fiction short story by Avram Davidson. It won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story 1958.
Struck by the fact that there are never enough pins and always too many coat-hangers, a bicycle shop owner begins to...
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That Hell-Bound Train
"That Hell-Bound Train" is a fantasy short story by Robert Bloch from 1958 that won the Hugo Award in 1959. It was originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in September 1958.
In the beginning of the story, Martin is...
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Soldier, Ask Not
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"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman
"'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" is a short story by speculative fiction writer Harlan Ellison. It is nonlinear in that the narrative begins in the middle, then moves to the beginning, then the end, without the use of flashbacks. First...
Neutron Star
"Neutron Star" is an English language science fiction short story written by Larry Niven. It was originally published in the August 1966 issue (Issue 107, Vol 16, No 10) of Worlds of If. It was later reprinted in Neutron Star, (New York: Ballantine,...
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I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" is a postapocalyptic science fiction short story by Harlan Ellison. It was first published in the March 1967 issue of IF: Worlds of Science Fiction. It won a Hugo Award in 1968. The name was also used for a short...
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Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones
"Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" is a science fiction short story by Samuel R. Delany. It won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story 1970, and the Nebula Award for Best Novelette in 1969.
Relationships change and reverse as a thief...
The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
"The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World" is a 1968 science fiction short story by American writer Harlan Ellison. It won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1969.
The story was first published in the June 1968 edition of Galaxy...
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Inconstant Moon
"Inconstant Moon" is a science fiction short story by American author Larry Niven that was published in 1971. Inconstant Moon is 1973 anthology of Larry Niven's short stories that includes the title piece. The title is a quote from the balcony scene...
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The Meeting
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Eurema's Dam
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The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" (Variations on a theme by William James) is a short story by Ursula K. Le Guin, included in her short story collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters; it won the Hugo Award for short stories in 1974. While it has a...
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The Hole Man
The Hole Man is a short story by Larry Niven. It won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1975.
In this story, a team of explorers and scientists on Mars encounter an alien base, in which there is a still-functional communication device. One...
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Jeffty Is Five
Jeffty Is Five is a fantasy short story written by Harlan Ellison. It was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1977, then was included in his short story collection Shatterday three years later. According to Ellison, it...
Tricentennial
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Cassandra
"Cassandra" is a science fiction short story written by American science fiction and fantasy author C. J. Cherryh. It was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in October 1978, and won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in...
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Grotto of the Dancing Deer
"Grotto of the Dancing Deer" is one of Clifford D. Simak's later short stories. It won the 1981 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. It involves an archaeologist discovering an ancient painting and its painter.
The Way of Cross and Dragon
"The Way of Cross and Dragon" is a science fiction short story by George R. R. Martin. It involves a far-future priest of the One True Interstellar Catholic Church of Earth and the Thousand Worlds (with similarities to the Roman Catholic hierarchy)...
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The Pusher
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Melancholy Elephants
"Melancholy Elephants" is a Hugo Award-winning science fiction short story written by Spider Robinson in 1983.
The story examines the interaction of copyright and longevity, and the possible effects of the extension of copyright to perpetuity.
Its...
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Speech Sounds
"Speech Sounds" is a science fiction short story by Octavia Butler. It won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1984.
A plague severely limits the ability of human beings to communicate with each other. Some can read but can't speak; some can...
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The Crystal Spheres
"The Crystal Spheres" is a science fiction short story by David Brin. It won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story 1985. In it David Brin presents an explanation for the Fermi Paradox. The Crystal Spheres appears in Brin's anthology, The River of Time...
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Fermi and Frost
"Fermi and Frost" is a science fiction short story by Frederik Pohl, first published in the January 1985 issue of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. It won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1986.
A brief story about how a nuclear winter...
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Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers
"Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers" is a science fiction short story by Lawrence Watt-Evans. It won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1988, and was nominated for the Nebula Award in 1987.
A young man tells his story about growing up...
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Kirinyaga
"Kirinyaga" is a science fiction short story published in 1988 by Mike Resnick and is the first chapter in the book by the same name. The story was the winner of the 1989 Hugo Award for Best Short Story and the 1989 SF Chronicle Award. It was also...
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Bears Discover Fire
"Bears Discover Fire" is a Hugo Award-winning short story by American science fiction author Terry Bisson. It concerns aging and evolution in the US South, the dream of wilderness, and community. The plot is that bears have discovered fire, and are...
Boobs
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Even the Queen
"Even the Queen" is a short story by Connie Willis. A humor story involving the future of gynecological science, it won the 1993 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.
During nomination the editor of Asimov's allegedly gave it the punning description of...
A Walk in the Sun
"A Walk in the Sun" is a science fiction short story published in 1991 by Geoffrey A. Landis. It won the 1992 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, the 1992 Asimov's Reader Poll Award and was nominated for the 1992 Locus Award.
The story follows Trish,...
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Death on the Nile
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None So Blind
"None So Blind" is a science fiction short story by Joe Haldeman. It won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story and the Locus Award for Short Story in 1995, was nominated for the Nebula Award in 1994.
A nerd falls in love with a blind musician, and...
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The Lincoln Train
The Lincoln Train is a science fiction short story published in 1995 by Maureen F. McHugh. It won the 1996 Hugo Award for Best Short Story and the 1996 Locus Award. It was also nominated for the 1996 Nebula Award for Best Short Story.
The story...
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The 43 Antarean Dynasties
The 43 Antarean Dynasties is a science fiction short story published in 1997 by Mike Resnick. It won the 1998 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. The story itself can be considered as a science fictional spin on the study of postcolonialism.
Hermes, a...
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The Very Pulse of the Machine
"The Very Pulse of the Machine" is a science fiction short story published in 1998 by Michael Swanwick. It was the winner of the 1999 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. It was also nominated for the 1999 Locus award and Asimov's Reader Poll.
The story...
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Scherzo with Tyrannosaur
"Scherzo with Tyrannosaur" is a science fiction short story published in 1999 by Michael Swanwick. It won the 2000 Hugo Award for Best Short Story and was nominated for the 2000 Locus Poll, Asimov's Reader Poll and Nebula Award.
The story follows...
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The Dog Said Bow-Wow
"The Dog Said Bow-Wow" is a science fiction short story written in 2001 by Michael Swanwick. It won the 2002 Hugo Award for Best Short Story and was nominated for the 2003 Nebula Award for Best Short Story. "The Dog Said Bow-Wow" is the title story...
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Falling Onto Mars
"Falling Onto Mars" is a science fiction short story written in 2002 by Geoffrey A. Landis. It won the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.
The story is told from the point of view of a great great grandchild of a prisoner exiled to Mars. The...
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A Study in Emerald
"A Study in Emerald" is a short story written by British fantasy and graphic novel author Neil Gaiman. The story is a Sherlock Holmes pastiche transferred to the Cthulhu Mythos universe of horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. It won the 2004 Hugo Award...
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Travels with My Cats
"Travels with My Cats" is a fantasy/magic realism short story by Mike Resnick. It won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 2005, was nominated for the Nebula Award in 2004.
Small town newspaper editor and failed novelist Ethan Owens leads a...
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Tk'tk'tk
Tk’tk’tk is a science fiction short story written in 2005 by David D. Levine. It received the 2006 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.
The story is about a penniless human salesman trying to sell software on an alien planet populated by giant,...
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Impossible Dreams
Impossible Dreams is a science fiction short story written in 2006 by Tim Pratt.
The story follows Pete, a movie aficionado, who one day discovers a video store containing movies that were never created. He discovers that he enters a parallel...
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Tideline
"Tideline" is a science fiction short story published in 2007 by Elizabeth Bear. It won the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Short Story and the 2008 Theodore Sturgeon Award (tied with "Finisterra" by David R. Moles).
The story follows a sentient war...
